Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-10 Thread Joseph Kesselman
I think we have to agree that we disagree. I don't consider the presence of a divergence in other implementations to be sufficient evidence by itself that we should copy that divergence. But that's just my own opinion; we'll see what the rest of the developers think. ___

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Davis
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 06:25, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > Which is why it's being corrected in XSLT 2.0. Yes, that is a Good Thing. Unfortunately, we're stuck with 1.0 for another year or so. (BTW, has Xalan made any moves towards supporting 2.0? Will that be Xalan3 or something?) > But a

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-10 Thread Joseph Kesselman
On Tuesday, 07/09/2002 at 03:11 MST, Peter Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 14:28, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > > The point of standards is that they _ARE_ standards, and you should be very > > explicit about when you're stepping outside their scope. > > The problem is that

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Davis
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 14:28, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > The point of standards is that they _ARE_ standards, and you should be very > explicit about when you're stepping outside their scope. The problem is that the standard in question was very short sited, placing this unecessary restriction o

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-09 Thread Joseph Kesselman
> > XSLT 2.0 allows Temporary Trees (new name for RTFs) to be treated directly > > as nodesets, but we can't do that in a fully compliant 1.0 implementation. > > Would it be possible to enable by some configuration option a "quirks mode" > where it is possible to use an RTF as a node-set? Speaki

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Davis
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:01, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > XSLT 2.0 allows Temporary Trees (new name for RTFs) to be treated directly > as nodesets, but we can't do that in a fully compliant 1.0 implementation. Would it be possible to enable by some configuration option a "quirks mode" where it is

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-09 Thread Joseph Kesselman
>Using the latest xalan (don't know about the behaviour in previous >versions) I cannot wrap an xsl:for-each as a variable e.g. >name="test"> I >get a 'cannot convert tree fragment to node-list exception'. >However, if I put the 'for each' in a template I can wrap the return from >this templat

Re: xsl-for-each

2002-07-09 Thread scott_boag
t Boag/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: xsl-for-each 07/09/2002 02:47

xsl-for-each

2002-07-08 Thread Rob Tice
Just a general posting as I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature of xsl. Using the latest xalan (don't know about the behaviour in previous versions) I cannot wrap an xsl:for-each as a variable e.g. I get a 'cannot convert tree fragment to node-list exception'. However, if I put the 'for ea